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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    In their first year of the trip to Erid, Grace catches a cold from a stowaway virus. Rocky, bossy as he is, (figuratively) tucks a very paranoid Grace into bed, who would much rather disinfect the entire Hail Mary in fear of transmitting it to Rocky.
    Unfortunately, this leads to the unexpected side effects of a much-needed sleep.

    On top of that, Grace may or may not have caught feelings for his best friend as well, not just a cold...

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    23 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 42

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    Eridian kids are entertained and fascinated by how lightly humans sleep.

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    22 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 26

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    At some point, Grace was roofied at a nightclub.

    He thinks it was in undergrad. It’s a strange and nebulous memory, even among his many strange and nebulous memories. Like weird flashes that don’t really follow any order and don’t really mean anything until they kind of start to.

    He gets the first sense of it when he’s tipsy on Ilyukhina’s vodka, lying on the floor. He knows he’s been drunk before. He knows he’s been to clubs, because he can hear the music and picture the lights. But it’s this specific moment where he tilts, and he remembers thinking, oh, this isn’t right. And then that’s all.

    It keeps coming back up. That oh feeling. Maybe because nothing is right, because he’s not supposed to be alone in the middle of space, with no way to get home.

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    22 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    Grace knows he's depressed. He knows it's a fight he can't win by himself.

    Luckily, he has Rocky to fight for him.

    (Grace struggles with depression on the way to Erid and Rocky is a great friend)

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    21 Apr 2026

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    He catches a glimpse of himself in the small mirror across the room.

    It’s as if he’s been frozen in time. Nothing about him has changed since he last touched the surface of his home planet.

    But of course, that’s not true. Everything has changed.

    He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t know what this means. He’s a man of science. There are rules, immutable laws of the universe, no matter where in the universe one is. Entropy, decay, deterioration. Everything in the universe experiences it.

    Everything except him, it seems.

     

    Or: While on Erid, Ryland Grace makes a startling realization: he seems to have stopped aging.

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    20 Apr 2026